Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-13
COLORED DITORS.

|COLORED EDITORS
Meet In Annual Session al
Louisville, ~, TO dis
cuss questions
Of interest
And Have a good time.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 10.-The Ma
stional Colored Press association resum-
ed its session to day, and was called to
order by w. III. Anderson in the, alb
sence Of President Simmons. The dis
.cussions of the day brought about di-
vision as to which party the colored
men should supp bort. f'he first topic an
nounced for discussion WAS the relation
of the Negro American to- the Existing
Political Parties.'' Rev. Allen Aliens
worth, Of Louisville, opened the dis
cussion. He said the American white
man did not understand the Negroes
position. The trouble was when Ne
groes asked for legal rights the majority
of the people seemed to think they were
asking social privileges. The Negroes,
should in measure, be separate from
existing parties, and teach them what
the colored mans right should be.
White men and colored men should Gull
tiyate more friendly relations. Colored
pesple should not fight any party or
creed, but labor to benefit themselves.
TIE Negroes would be a mere cipher as
an independent party. They should adj
here to the Republican party. IF they
do not like to do this they should be
ruled out. The Republicans were go
ing to take possession of things again.
They had merely split over Jim Blaine
and the spoils. It was their theft and
dishonesty that divided them the last
time. The mugwumps cannot amount
to much, as they form a company of
sorehead reformers There never was
a reform party that was not fraud.
Tie Negro who deserts the Republican
party is traitor to the living and the
dead, and it is wonder that the ghosts
ofthe great departed statesmen who
founded the party do not come forth
and confront them. D. A.. Rudd, of the
Catholic Tribune, said the Negro owed
no undying allegiance to any party. For
every service the Republicans had done
them, they have done them two in re-
turn. The Negroes should be part and
parcel of no political party that was not
part and parcel Of them. He was I'M
willing to wear any coat that was cut
and put on him without his cave. Prof.
P. II. Murray. of the S. Louis Advance.
stated that as long as the Negroes were
regarded as the political enemy of any
party, inst that long would they have
that party to fight and oppose their.
interests. The Negro is not in position
to dictate to any political party. He
criticized the st. Louis Globe Democrat,
which advocated the unloading Of the
colored men into the Democratic party.
The colored men should support the
party which is best at the present time
not one that has been in the pest. CAS-
far as Mr.. Blaine is concerned" said
Prof. Murrav, .he seems anxious to
read the Negroes out Of the party and
I'LL up with Irish votes. Mr.. Sherman
went to Nashville and made speech in
which he tried to coax some ex-confed-
ates into the party. He made another
at Springfield, in which he wanted to
read them all out of the party. AS far
AS / am concerned / am tired Of the
Negro being a bone of contention be-
tween the two parties and this should
be read out of politics as an issue y DR..
Rndd's resolution indorsing the Blair
bill was endorsed, as was one extending
sympathy and greeting to Ireland as a
people, ."'who, like the Negro, have
been sugering and struggling under the
injustice OF man to man." DR.. III. Fitz-
butler, of Louisville, chairman Of the
committee on resolutions, submitted the
following report which was adopted
First-We deplore the conditions that
make this convention necessity, and
while it shall be our effort to secure
equal and common privileges for all
nationalities in places Of public instruc-
ton, and demanding as we do in,lis-
criminate rights on common carriers
and in places of public accommodation
and entertainment, we have no other
reason to offer for the meeting Of the
5Colored Press association than the
realization of the privileges, pleasures
and benefits that should be common te
the country regardless Of nationalties.
Second The colored press can now
comprehend the ostracism and pre-.
JUDGES existing against the colored mar
In the dark shadow Of. American slavery
as well as the sufferers therefrom and
therefor. None are 50 well qualified te
make an appeal against these evils al
the colored man himself, and at the
same time his honest and Intelligent
effort will stand as witness Of his native
ability, emitting him to the rights O
citizenship.
Resolved, That we denounce the act
of the legislatures of Indiana, Virginia
Tennessee and other states making enter
marriages Of the colored race with ntha,